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With President Donald Trump’s slated departure for a state visit to the United Kingdom later this month, another high-profile arrest has exposed Britain’s growing free speech crisis.

The arrest of Arizona-based Irish comedian Graham Linehan, for allegedly criticizing transgender activists on social media, coincided with a Wednesday warning from British politician Nigel Farage to Congress that England is collapsing into a "really awful authoritarian situation."

The leader of the populist Reform U.K. party, Farage, told U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday at a hearing on "European threats to free speech" that the sitcom writer Linehan found out what life is like in the totalitarian North Korean state on Monday at Heathrow Airport in

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